Quotes by Rebecca West
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
West, Rebecca
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
West, Rebecca
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
West, Rebecca